MissionThe mission of the Computing for Sustainable Water project is to study the effects of human activity on a large watershed and gain deeper insights into what actions can lead to restoration, health and sustainability of this important water resource. The extensive computing power of World Community Grid will be used to perform millions of computer simulations to better understand the effects that result from a variety of human activity patterns in the Chesapeake Bay area. The researchers hope to be able to apply what is learned from this project across the globe to other regions which face challenges of sustainable water.

We are starting a Beta test for Computing for Sustainable Water today that will test a code optimization. This change is to address the runtime discrepancy between windows XP and Windows 7. The change is also beneficial to Mac and Linux at the same time. We are expecting to see an increase in efficiency by 400-600% from our initial testing. This means if your computer ran a work unit in about 4 hours, you will probably complete a work unit in around an hour.

The application version will be testing work units that have already run through the grid to make sure the results match what was sent initially. We will be sending out 5000 work units with Zero Redundancy (ZR) but since it is a new application version additional copies will be sent out.

We are starting a new beta test which is going to test the 64 bit version of the application. We are going to send out 5,000 work units which will go out to both the 64 bit and 32 bit version. 64bit version of CFSW will show up as version 6.12 for the Beta.